Civil Society: Iran

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Contemporary debates about gender, Islam, and
civil
society in
Iran
have been greatly influenced by the
Islamic
Revolution of 1979 and the policies promulgated
immediately after the revolution. The tensions created by the formal
affirmation of women's rights to
political
participation and education in the post-revolutionary
constitution in the face of actual negation of women's
individual rights, particularly in the area of
family
law and in the differential treatment of men and women in
crimina…